FINANCIAL TIMES News, Oct 16, 2011

Pearson and the Financial Times Launch 'FT in Education' Newswire Today (press release) The Financial Times and Pearson today announced the launch of FT in education, an initiative that will make the FT's world-class journalism more easily accessible for customers of Pearson, the world's leading learning company. FT in education allows ... See all stories on this topic »

Financial Times's FT Tilt service to close | Media Monkey The Guardian (blog) ... that banks and asset managers were trying to stamp down on spiralling costs on information services. Where Murphy – formerly of this parish – might emerge next remains unclear. He was not returning calls this morning. Financial Times FT Tilt website. See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

Alcatel-Lucent Rises as FT Reports Permira to Buy Call Centers BusinessWeek The French manufacturer reached an agreement to sell the call-center division to London-based private-equity firm Permira Advisers LLP for as much as $1.5 billion, the Financial Times reportedtoday, without saying where it got the information. ... See all stories on this topic »

FT interview transcript: Jean-Claude Trichet Financial Times JCT: There are more reasons today for the Europeans to unite in economic, financial and monetary fields than there were at the beginning of the 1950s, at the time of the first speech of Robert Schuman. I really think that the structural transformation ... See all stories on this topic »

Banks to be forced to bolster liquid assets: FT Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Global banking regulators will press ahead with the first worldwide effort to force banks to hold more liquid assets, the chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said in an interview with the Financial Times on Monday. ... See all stories on this topic » Reuters

FT Future of America conference FT.com (blog) The Financial Times' View from the Top conference this year focuses on “The future of America”, with business leaders, politicians and economists exploring a variety of factors that will shape America including the economy, the influence of China and ... See all stories on this topic » FT.com (blog)

Former Olympus CEO Dismissed Over Acquisition Probes, FT Reports BusinessWeek ... the Financial Times reported. The executive was pushing for more information on the purchase of Gyrus in 2008 and three other purchases, the newspaper said today, citing documents it had seen. Olympus auditors, including accounting firm KPMG LLP, ... See all stories on this topic »

Lloyds set for big losses on real estate - FT Reuters LONDON Oct 10 (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group appears poised to take a loss of about 35 percent on a 1 billion pound ($1.5 billion) basket of commercial property debt as talks advance to sell the portfolio, the Financial Times reported on Monday. ... See all stories on this topic »

Blackstone, Carlyle On Short List Of Morgan Keegan Suitors -FT Fox Business s (RF) Morgan Keegan brokerage unit, the Financial Times reported online Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. No date has been set for final bids, but the FT's sources said they expect offers to come in the next two to three weeks. ... See all stories on this topic »

Minister refused Southern Cross crisis talks Financial Times ... the Financial Times has learnt. In a series of letters seen by the FT, Jamie Buchan, Southern Cross chief executive, warned the minister that the UK's biggest care home operator was facing financial pressures and asked for a meeting to discuss it ... See all stories on this topic »

HTC eyes further content acquisitions Financial Times What users really care about are the day-to-day experiences,” Mr Chou tells theFinancial Times. As well as its launch on Wednesday of handsets running on Microsoft's new Mango operating system, the company last week launched two phones – The HTC ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

Big European Banks May Shrink To Meet Higher Reserve Targets -FT Wall Street Journal Leading European banks would prefer to sell assets than to raise fresh capital to meet demands from the European Union for higher reserve ratios, the Financial Times reported online Wednesday, citing top bankers. According to the bankers, this approach ... See all stories on this topic »

Cameron urges swift eurozone debt action AFP Cameron's comments came in an interview with the Financial Times (FT) and as the prime minister spoke on Monday with US President Barack Obama on how best to solve the eurozone debt crisis. British finance minister George Osborne told parliament that ... See all stories on this topic » AFP

FT on the rise as i slips back The Guardian Sales of i slipped back in September after several successive months of circulation growth with the Financial Times the only daily paper to show a monthly increase. The cut-price i had an average sale of 184402, down 3.5% on August, according to Audit ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

'Financial Times' to shutter FT Tilt BtoB Magazine London—The Financial Times plans to close FT Tilt at the end of the month. The subscription-based online property, launched earlier this year, covers the economies of Brazil, China and other emerging markets. “While the FT is keen to support new ... See all stories on this topic »

Confusion over Fox's Sri Lanka trust Financial Times By Jim Pickard, Political Correspondent A trust set up by Liam Fox to help Sri Lanka's development appears to have achieved nothing other than to pay for the MP's trips to the country, one of his allies has told the Financial Times. ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

German banks attack recapitalisation plan Financial Times ... of stabilising the financial markets to fabricate an imaginary weakness of the European banking industry through the artificial tightening of capital requirements,” according to the letter, a copy of which has been seen by the Financial Times. ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

BSkyB investors voice doubts over James Murdoch-FT Reuters Oct 11 (Reuters) - A leading shareholder at British Sky Broadcasting has called for James Murdoch to resign as its chairman as investor concerns increase in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at News International, the Financial Times reported. ... See all stories on this topic »

Reliance set to strike deal with Disney's UTV Financial Times “UTV and Disney are at an advanced stage of signing a deal with Reliance that will see them using games, Bollywood and children's content on their 4G platform,” a person close to the matter told the Financial Times. Another person familiar with the ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

Virgin, Etihad Consider Lufthansa's BMI Partnership, FT Reports Bloomberg By Kari Lundgren - Sat Oct 15 09:30:26 GMT 2011 Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. and Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways are in discussions about partnering if Virgin pursues a bid for Deutsche Lufthansa AG (LHA)'s UK-based BMI unit, the Financial Times said. ... See all stories on this topic »

U.K. Regulator Criticizes Auditing of French Banks, FT Reports Bloomberg By Alan Purkiss - Mon Oct 10 07:16:29 GMT 2011 Britain's leading accounting regulator criticized French auditors for allowing France's banks to report smaller losses on Greek government bonds than some European competitors, the Financial Times reported ... See all stories on this topic »

Quick View: Futures industry's Groundhog Day Financial Times “I feel like I'm in Groundhog Day,” Garry Jones, head of NYSE Liffe, told the Financial Times, referring to the film in which the protagonist lives the same day over and over. To be sure, Dodd-Frank – the post-crisis legislation aimed at overhauling ... See all stories on this topic »

Carrefour chief seeks more time for turnround Financial Times If anybody is not happy with the share price, it's me,” Mr Olofsson told the Financial Times in an interview just hours after the latest warning – the second in six weeks. “What I can tell you is that I'm fully dedicated to seeing that our plan is ... See all stories on this topic »

Polyus eyes UK relocation ahead of float -FT Reuters Africa LONDON Oct 14 (Reuters) - Polyus Gold has moved to redomicile in the UK by early November, paving the way for it to become listed on the London Stock Exchange by the end of the year, theFinancial Times said on Friday. The FT reported that Polyus's ... See all stories on this topic »

Anshan eyes $2bn steel plant in India Financial Times Zhang Xiaogang, president of Anshan, told the Financial Times that having an involvement in India – probably as part of collaboration with other steel producers – was part of his effort to make Anshan the “most competitive steelmaker in the world” over ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

FT Story On Chinese Copper Inventories Captures Attention, But Impact Likely ... Forbes The country's copper inventories stood at 1.9 million metric tons at the end of 2010, the Financial Times reported, citing estimates from the China Non-Ferrous Metals Industry Association. The story said the figure higher than industry estimates mostly ... See all stories on this topic »

Barclays Chief Mulls Offer for Spain's Caja de Ahorros, FT Says BusinessWeek By Kari Lundgren Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Bob Diamond, Chief Executive Officer of Barclays Plc, made a non-binding preliminary offer for Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo earlier this month, according to the Financial Times. The deal would make Barclays ... See all stories on this topic »

Vitruvian Partners Acquires 50% of College Group, FT Reports Bloomberg ... million-pound ($1.44 billion) inaugural fund, will buy a little more than half of College Group, a London-based communications consulting company, in a transaction that values the business at about 45 million pounds, the Financial Times reported. ... See all stories on this topic »

Obama adviser warns over jobs bill bickering Financial Times Speaking at the Financial Times conference focusing on the future of America, Gene Sperling said it was “inexcusable” for Washington not to act on 9.1 per cent unemployment because of partisan quarrelling. The jobs act is a “fundamental economic ... See all stories on this topic »

Franklin Official Says Murdoch Shouldn't Head BSkyB, FT Reports Bloomberg ... should step down as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSY), according to Peter Langerman, who heads Mutual Series, an investment team within Franklin Templeton Investments, a leading BSkyB shareholder, the Financial Times reported. ... See all stories on this topic »

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The Financial Times and Pearson launch “FT in education” | About ... The Financial Times and Pearson today announced the launch of FT in ... The Financial Times, one of the world's leading business news organisations, ... aboutus.ft.com/.../the-financial-times-and-pearson-launch-“ft-i...

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Markets Live transcript 12 Oct 2011 - FT Alphaville - Financial Times I'm all for the “positioning rally in spite of news rather than because of it” explanation. .... TARPleaks The front page of the FT today writes that the EBA is about to ... ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/10/12/700216/markets-live/

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